I dote on his very absence. -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"

#6475

I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamt that I was reading on,so I woke up from sheer boredom.

#6476

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain

#6477

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as aweek sometimes to make it up. -- Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad"

#6478

I reverently believe that the maker who made us all makes everything in NewEngland, but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must beraw apprentices in the weather-clerks factory who experiment and learn how, inNew England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather forcountries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhereif they don't get it. -- Mark Twain

#6479

I think we are in Rats' Alley where the dead men lost their bones. -- T.S. Eliot

#6480

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. -- Mark Twain

#6481

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. Iwill live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of allThree shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that theyteach. Oh, tell me that I may sponge away the writing on this stone! -- Charles Dickens

#6482

"I wonder", he said to himself, "what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures and battles." -- Bastian B. Bux